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SBA raises EIDL loan amount limit to $500,000 for 24 months of damage

The U.S. Small Business Administration has increased the maximum amount small businesses and non-profit organizations can borrow through its COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. Starting the week of April 6, the SBA is raising the loan limit for the COVID-19…

Staff

Apr 3

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Morris Murdock & Columbus to merge

Two major Utah travel industry companies have announced that they are merging. Morris Murdock Travel of Salt Lake City and Columbus Travel of Bountiful said they are becoming one “to strengthen and enhance travel programs and opportunities available to the traveling public.” The…

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Apr 3

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Drought loans available

Small nonfarm businesses in Box Elder, Davis, Morgan, Salt Lake, Tooele and Weber counties are now eligible to apply for low-interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration for damages suffered because of reduced revenues caused by drought in Davis…

Mercato acquires Cloud Elements

Salt Lake City’s Mercato Partners has acquired Denver-based enterprise automation software company Cloud Elements from UiPath through its Traverse Growth Fund III. Cloud Elements specializes in application programming interface (API) integration and management. The transaction…

Salty Dot buys Florida agency

Salty Dot Inc., a Salt Lake City-based insurance technology and brokerage company, has acquired automobile dealership point-of-sale insurance company Purple Insurance of Ft. Myers, Florida. “The transaction will further drive Salty’s product-first strategy, speeding up the…

Salt Lake City area multifamily market strong despite economic uncertainty

The Salt Lake City area multifamily real estate market continues to show strong sales and further cap rate compression despite recent economic challenges. Those are among the finding of CBRE Commercial Real Estate’s semi-annual “Greater Salt Lake Area Multifamily Market Report”…

Ivanti closes purchase of Cherwell

Ivanti Inc., an IT management and security company based in South Jordan, has closed its acquisition of Cherwell Software of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cherwell provides IT service and assets management software for the healthcare, finance, education and government sectors.…

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS 4-5-2021

The following are recent financial reports as posted by selected Utah corporations: HealthEquity HealthEquity Inc., based in Draper, reported net income of $5.4 million, or 7 cents per share, for the quarter ended Jan. 31. That compares with a net loss of $200,000, or less than…

Resetting your business strategy for 2021 success

By Richard Tyson It’s not clear whether 2020 was a wake-up call or if it put us all to sleep. The worldwide pandemic caught everyone by surprise, forcing us to reassess how we interact with each other and how we conduct business. For some, this was a call to action; for others,…

Business Tech: Using Microsoft Teams as your phone system

By Bahar Ferguson Microsoft has always been the backbone of office work. Documents, presentations and spreadsheets are what businesses use every day to write down, communicate and track what is happening. Knowing your way around Microsoft Office is synonymous with understanding…

Succeeding in Your Business: Setting up an affiliate program? Here are the pros and cons

By Cliff Ennico “I have a small line of consumer products that I promote mostly from our company website. “A number of my competitors have set up affiliate programs in the past year, where people can sell their stuff from their own websites and get a commission. I’m thinking…

Industry Briefs 4-5-21

Industry Briefs are provided as a free service to our readers. Company news information may be sent to brice@slenterprise.com. The submission deadline is one week before publication. BANKING • WebBank , a Salt Lake City-based industrial bank, has appointed Shannon Hutchings as…

COVID effect on women termed 'she-cession'

By Brice Wallace The celebration of International Women’s Day earlier this month recognized the contributions of women to Utah’s economy, but it also was muted by the economic troubles women have confronted because of COVID-19. During an online event by the Women’s Business…

BioFire's COVID-19 test first in U.S. to get full FDA clearance

BioFire Diagnostics, a Salt Lake City-based clinical biological diagnostics firm, has become the first company to receive full de novo clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a COVID-19 test. BioFire’s Respiratory Panel 2.1 is the first SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic to…

Saraya to open first U.S. factory in Orem in June

A Japan-based company will expand in Orem over the next three years, adding 140 jobs in Orem. Saraya USA Inc., doing business as Lakanto, will open a manufacturing and distribution operation at a leased 133,000-square-foot building under construction in Orem and expects to move…

SBA opens page for Shuttered Venue Operators Grant application process

The U.S. Small Business Administration has opened a landing page for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) application portal in anticipation of opening applications for the much-anticipated critical economic relief program on April 8. The SVOG funds have been allocated for…

Weber State tracking COVID-19 effects on Weber County residents

Weber State University’s Center for Community Engaged Learning Research Extension (CCEL-RE), an office created to meet data and research needs of community partners and nonprofit organizations, has launched an online dashboard to provide a better picture of exactly how the…

Plans proceeding for Stadium of Fire, other July 4 events to return

The 40th anniversary of the July 4 Stadium of Fire show at Brigham Young University’s LaVell Edwards Stadium was a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, but organizers of Provo’s America’s Freedom Festival, which produces the Stadium of Fire, said the event will return this…

Despite reports, state agencies say there have been no vaccine deaths

In a recent joint statement from the Utah Department of Health and the state Office of the Medical Examiner, the agencies said there have been no COVID-19 vaccine-related deaths in the state. The statement followed reports that a 39-year-old Utah woman died shortly after her…

AstraZeneca vaccine overcoming European troubles, to seek EUA soon

Reuters has reported that AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine performed better than expected in a major late-stage trial, potentially paving the way for its emergency use authorization in the United States and bolstering confidence in the shot after numerous setbacks in Europe. The…

CDC's 3-foot desk spacing ruling will help get Utah kids back in school

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has relaxed its social distancing guidelines for schools. The federal agency now says students can sit 3 feet apart in classrooms, changing the 6-foot standard that had forced some schools to remove desks, stagger scheduling and…

Number of employed Utahns back to pre-pandemic level

Utah’s unemployment rate inched closer to its all-time low in February at 3 percent, according to figures released by the Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS). The best jobless rate ever recorded in Utah was 2.3 percent, coming just over one year earlier, in January 2020,…

GOED replaces three board members

Gov. Spencer Cox has nominated three new members to serve on the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board: Tanner Ainge, Kira Slawson and Geri Gamber. They succeed departing members Mel Lavitt, Peter Mouskondis and Margaret (Margo) Jacobs. Ainge is the founder and…

Five film productions coming to Utah this year through GOED incentives

Five productions — including three with Christmas themes — will be shooting in Utah this year after being approved for state incentives by the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board. The board, at its most recent meeting, approved the tax credit and cash rebate…

Staff

Mar 29

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